Future of Toon Lagoon

[Legacy]

I wonder what the cultural relevance of Dr. Seuss is these days (not implying they should replace it at all, just wondering)

Seussical Jr. is one of the most frequently produced shows in America (15th in 2025) and the Grinch is an omnipresent character during the holidays. In 2020, the Seuss estate made $33 million (the second most of any dead celebrity, behind Michael Jackson). And new book, “Sing the 50 States” - a recently discovered manuscript from the ACTUAL Theodor Geisel - is getting released this June. Seuss is still very relevant.

I don't expect you to have the answer so throwing this out there: Do parks that are owned by an IP holder have free access to other department's IPs? Does Disney have to pay some sort of fee for the use of movies properites to the studio, for example? Is it actually "free" to the parks?

This has been answered better already, but yes.

Universal the theme park actually had to get approval from Universal Pictures for all of the Universal Monsters haunts, for example.